Bug 37465

Summary: Handbook needs new section
Product: Documentation Reporter: Leonard Zettel <zettel>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Leonard Zettel 2002-04-25 21:20:01 UTC

Fix: 

Add the following section to 3. Unix Basics

Console Navigation

Here are two simple techniques that can make using FreeBSD much more
powerful and enjoyable.

Alternate Consoles

The key combinations ALT-F1 through ALT-F6 give you simultaneous
parallel channels of access to the sytem, much as though you could seat 
yourself at any one of six different keyboard-monitor sets, each
with its own communication path to FreeBSD.  This can be useful
for simultaneously editing a file and observing the effects of
executing it or for examing the messages in stderr without disturbing
your main channel of communication with the system.

Scrolling the console text display.

Pushing the scroll lock key (on the upper right of your keyboard)
lets you use the arrow keys or the page up and page down keys to
navigate through the console text display, allowing access to portions
that have scrolled off the top of the monitor.  Pushing scroll lock
again restores normal display operation.
Comment 1 hiten pandya 2002-04-25 21:31:21 UTC
--- Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> wrote:
> >Number:         37465
> >Category:       docs
> >Synopsis:       Handbook needs new section

> The key combinations ALT-F1 through ALT-F6 give you simultaneous
> parallel channels of access to the sytem

Information also needs to be added on how to limit these terminals, which,
can
be done by editing /etc/ttys, or through sysinstall(8).

Thanks.

  -- Hiten

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Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-09-24 01:38:11 UTC
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From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida


I have something in the works about this. 
See http://www.freebsd.org/~keramida/diff/ttyvdoc.diff 

After 4.7-RELEASE is out, I'm ready to add some stuff. 
Committing it now would be nasty for translator teams.
Comment 3 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-10-04 14:43:13 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed


I just added a new section in revision 1.78 of 
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics/chapter.sgml,v 
The changes should be visible on the web in less than 12 hours. 
Thanks for your bug report submission.